16 GENERAL REMARKS. 



to Calais, and explore the St. Croix River for land- 

 locked salmon ; or continue on to St. John, and by rail- 

 road and stage or steamer to the Nipisiquit, and kill 

 the true salmon — salmo salar — king of fish ; or you 

 may take the railroad from Boston to Bethel and 

 cross by stage into the Umbagog region of Maine, 

 and visit its innumerable lakes with unpronouncea- 

 ble names, or may embark on the steamboat at 

 Cleveland, and wake up, after two days' tranquil 

 voyage, at the Sault Ste. Marie, the outlet of Lake 

 Superior ; or you may stop anywhere on any of 

 these routes, even out in the ocean, on the way to 

 New Brunswick, if you please, where there are pol- 

 lock or haddock, and have good fishing. There is 

 excellent fishing close to New York city, and better 

 still the farther you recede from it. 



It is true the fisherman will not find those refined 

 comforts that the more cultivated and densely peo- 

 pled districts of Europe afford ; but he will receive 

 a hearty welcome and wholesome entertainment at 

 the country tavern or the farmer's house. If, how- 

 ever, he have youth and tolerable hardihood, he 

 should look for no such reception ; but, carrying his 

 canvas-home, enjoy the luxury of unrestrained inde- 

 pendence, kill and cook his own dinner, and sleep in 

 the pure air of the wilderness. He will have to sur- 

 render a few necessaries that habit has made so, but 

 he will be repaid a thousandfold by increased hap- 

 piness and improved health ; he will not have ser- 

 vants to wait on him, nor desserts or wines to pamper 

 him; but he will have his guide to instruct, and 



